no more ban bets :(

.... ???

Or how about a "Good bet, that was pretty ballsy" message on my message board??

^^^I don't mind taking the fall. I bet and I lost fair and square.

To elaborate, I think it's cool that on VGChartz you could get banned in a bet. Being banned is a very tangible thing and I can't think of any other forum site that would let you do ban bets. That kind of flexibility and informality, along with the relatively civil community, keeps me coming back to this site. I'm not saying I'll leave or anything, I just think ban bets make this site different and better than other sites.
To summarize: I made a bet. I lost. Ban me.

I think the lumping together typically occurs because Sony fans have even more of a tendency to be dillusional than other fans.  The idea that the PS3 will some day show its true power and the true power of the cell ones developers figure out how to "unlock" it.  It's a silly idea -- the processor is well documented, well understood, and designed.  There aren't any secrets.  Just a processor with SPEs that apply to some but not all algorithms used in rendering engines.

When Sony announced implementing a known software-scaling technique for their SDK, a lot of people said, "horizontal scaling unlocked in the PS3!  The rest of the scaler to be unlocked soon!  Proof it has a scaler."  They didn't care that it was the lowest quality possible scaling, a kind of scaling that can be done quickly in software, and doesn't suggest anything about a hardware scaler at all.  You couldn't reason with them about it. 

Bod: I think you're making a good call.  Let's let the dust settle.  There's no reason to rush judgement here.

We could bet for bad and good mesoteto cats or something, seems to be a universal currency in here!